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A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves - One Family and Migration in the 21st Century (Paperback)
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A Good Provider Is One Who Leaves - One Family and Migration in the 21st Century (Paperback)
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One of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year "A
remarkable book...indispensable."--The Boston Globe "A sweeping,
deeply reported tale of international migration...DeParle's
understanding of migration is refreshingly clear-eyed and
nuanced."--The New York Times "This is epic reporting, nonfiction
on a whole other level...One of the best books on immigration
written in a generation."--Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted The
definitive chronicle of our new age of global migration, told
through the multi-generational saga of a Filipino family, by a
veteran New York Times reporter and two-time Pulitzer Prize
finalist. When Jason DeParle moved into the Manila slums with Tita
Comodas and her family three decades ago, he never imagined his
reporting on them would span three generations and turn into the
defining chronicle of a new age--the age of global migration. In a
monumental book that gives new meaning to "immersion journalism,"
DeParle paints an intimate portrait of an unforgettable family as
they endure years of sacrifice and separation, willing themselves
out of shantytown poverty into a new global middle class. At the
heart of the story is Tita's daughter, Rosalie. Beating the odds,
she struggles through nursing school and works her way across the
Middle East until a Texas hospital fulfills her dreams with a job
offer in the States. Migration is changing the world--reordering
politics, economics, and cultures across the globe. With nearly 45
million immigrants in the United States, few issues are as
polarizing. But if the politics of immigration is broken,
immigration itself--tens of millions of people gathered from every
corner of the globe--remains an underappreciated American success.
Expertly combining the personal and panoramic, DeParle presents a
family saga and a global phenomenon. Restarting her life in
Galveston, Rosalie brings her reluctant husband and three young
children with whom she has rarely lived. They must learn to become
a family, even as they learn a new country. Ordinary and
extraordinary at once, their journey is a twenty-first-century
classic, rendered in gripping detail.
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